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The History of American Food

The History of American Food

De: Margaret Hardin
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Starting with the first English settlements in the 17th Century, this podcasts traces how we went from barrels of salted meat & peas to Korean bbq tacos and the largest grocery store selections ever seen anywhere in the world. We'll go everywhere - and it is full of surprises.

Show Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/
Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood@gmail.com
Internets: @THoAFoodCopyright Margaret Hardin Arte Ciencias Sociales Comida y Vino Mundial
Episodios
  • 152 Early 19th Century Tea - Still Extremely Fashionable

    152 Early 19th Century Tea - Still Extremely Fashionable
    Aug 20 2025
    Last show on the substandard mic - but the paper towel as popfilter helped some.

    Let's talk tea - what tea were people drinking in the early 19th century? The answer was almost uniformly, "bad tea".
    Ignorance lead to people needing sugar in their tea b/c they were drinking the bad stuff. In fact a whole grade of "export quality" tea was invented to fulfill the growing global/European/American demand. Just in this case - "expot quality" mostly meant the dregs. Or the dust anyway.

    Understanding that most tea Americans were drinking in this age was somewhere between stale and adulterated, and only became more so as time went on, the swing to coffee starts to make more sense. It had less to do with feelings towards England, and more to do with the tea just not tasting that good.

    To understand just what tea was then, join in...

    Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle
    Show Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/
    Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood at gmail dot com
    Threads: @THoAFood
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    31 m
  • 151 The First Chinese Food in America

    151 The First Chinese Food in America
    Aug 6 2025
    First of all - sorry about the diferent mic. But this way we get the episode. I'll see what I can do to make things better for next ep - and all will be back to normal by the one after that.

    Anyway - 19th Century Chinese Food?

    What can I tell you? It would have looked much the same as lots of the food you will find right now around the Pearl RIver Delta, the old district of Canton - now known as Guangzhou.

    But this episode is not just about the food - it also looks a bit into how the US and China started dealing with each other. How did that stream of labor from China - that would be essential in the gold fileds and then the construction of the US railroads get a foot hold in California.

    While there is much made of the Chinese presence in New York - and how they influenced east coast culture - there is the less well known story of China and the early west.
    So grab your dried fish, pickled vegetables, boiled millet and see what's there.



    Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle
    Show Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/
    Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood at gmail dot com
    Threads: @THoAFood
    Instagram: @THoAFood
    & some other socials... @THoAFood
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    39 m
  • 150 Lobster - From Poor Man's Chicken to Fancy Canned Good

    150 Lobster - From Poor Man's Chicken to Fancy Canned Good
    Jul 23 2025
    Think you're fancy with your lobster roll... or did you get it from a Massachusetts McDonalds?

    All are possible... and much more - including death by lobster poisoning.

    To get more of the story - tune in to early 19th century lobster

    Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle
    Show Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/
    Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood at gmail dot com
    Threads: @THoAFood
    Instagram: @THoAFood
    & some other socials... @THoAFood
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    24 m
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The information is interesting - I’ll hang around. Delivery... it’s early days. But I want to hear the whole story.

Getting Started

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Rabbit holes I never knew existed have been opened up for me. Greedily consuming this starting at the beginning. 💖

Love the attention to detail

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As a chef and history buff, I love this podcast. It is informative and very enjoyable to listen to.

Entertaining and well researched

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bringing history to life with wit and sometimes science! best listened to from the begining.

fun and quirky

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